[PATCH 0/2] mtd: switch to keying by dev_t

[Christian Brauner]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:23:55 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> For this cycle Jan, Christoph, and myself switched the generic super
> code to key superblocks for block devices by device number (sb->s_dev)
> instead of block device pointers (sb->s_bdev).
> 
> Not just does this allow us to defer opening block devices after we
> allocated a superblock it also allows us to move closing block devices
> to a later point to avoid various deadlocks.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.super branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.super branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.super

[1/2] fs: export sget_dev()
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/9c4d12957d16
[2/2] mtd: key superblock by device number
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/ff7c9910eaad